‘Shadow’ summit slams EU leaders for lack of initiative

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Series Details 23.3.11
Publication Date 23/03/2011
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EurActiv reports on the first ‘summit’, called the ‘Shadow’ European Council, launched on 22 March 2011 by the Spinelli Group. During this first meeting, the Group came up with a list of conclusions criticising EU leaders' actions taken so far and called for a new pact on economic governance and more consistency in foreign policy.

‘The EU has failed and even violated the Treaty,’ said Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-chair of the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament and a leader of the recently-established Spinelli Group. The first Shadow European Council came ahead of the EU leaders summit from 24- 25 March 2011.

Source Link http://www.euractiv.com/global-europe/european-shadow-council-slams-eu-leaders-lack-initiative-news-503403
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Website: The Spinelli Group http://www.spinelligroup.eu/
ESO: Background information: Anyone for a federal Europe? / Europe needs sceptics http://www.europeansources.info/record/anyone-for-a-federal-europe-europe-needs-sceptics/
EurActiv, 16.9.10: Spinelli Group seeks supporters to boost federalism http://www.euractiv.com/future-eu/spinelli-group-seeks-supporters-news-497856

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